I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

At school, no one knew that this girl named "Xia You" had a terrifying identity online.

"what!"

Xia You woke up with a start, raised her head and stared straight ahead, her back covered in cold sweat, feeling very uncomfortable.

The student sitting next to me cast a strange look at me, and the teacher in front of the blackboard said unhappily:

"Those of you who are sleeping, please be quiet and don't disturb the students behind you who are secretly using their phones..."

A burst of laughter erupted in the classroom, filling it with a joyful atmosphere.

"I'm talking to you, Tao Mingming! Take it back? Is it too late to take it back now? I wasn't even talking to you earlier..."

Xia You finally calmed down, and her classmate whispered with concern:

"what happened to you?"

Xia You shook her head and slumped back onto the table: "I had a nightmare."

"Are you alright?"

Xia You did not answer.

Her deskmate didn't ask any more questions. This beautiful deskmate had always been aloof, and everyone was used to it.

Lying on the table, Xia You's eyes remained open.

Her mind was still replaying that nightmarish passage from yesterday:

"It's nothing special."

The nightmare I just had was about that mysterious person who called himself "X" sticking a small piece of paper with this sentence written on it on his back.

I didn't even notice it after attending classes at school all day.

For a naive young girl, this incident dealt a devastating blow to her resolve.

A young person's first growth spurt often comes from discovering that they are not the center of the world.

Xia You felt this sense of "growth" at this moment.

Judging from the wording and sentence structure, this document appears to be retaliation for his actions yesterday.

But she was certain that the person who received the order to hack yesterday was clearly just a newbie.

And the source of the attack was clearly the same person from before.

How could a complete novice suddenly learn a counter-attack technique and infiltrate your own defenses in a single day?

It's like a little monk who was beaten to a pulp yesterday, but the next day he can beat up seventeen or eighteen top-notch heroes.

Oh, that's possible. It's possible that person was Xu Zhu.

Xia You has two guesses as to why this happened:

First, the other party hired another expert to hack into their system.

Another possibility is that the other party is not actually a novice.

He was faking it.

Or rather, he simply set a trap, just waiting for himself to fall into it.

If it's the first scenario, she wouldn't be able to discover the hidden expert; she would still have to look for clues from the port she hacked earlier.

The second scenario is even less relevant.

So no matter what, she had to start with the person she hacked yesterday.

But if she did that, she felt it would be as if she had lost.

A truly cool hacker should be someone who leaves without a trace after accomplishing their task, keeping their identity and name hidden.

Who goes back to an old flame like this?

Moreover, judging from the other party's provocative tone and the way they left the door wide open, it was clear that they were inviting him in.

By invading back, I have fallen into their trap.

In short, Xia You is now in a dilemma.

And she's the kind of person who won't do the next thing until one problem is solved.

It could be said that this seemingly ordinary action actually became a stumbling block in Xia You's career.

Unable to concentrate in class or sleep well, Xia You spent the whole day in a state of turmoil. When she got home, she turned on her computer.

As a result, she found another document on her desktop.

"You don't dare to fight back?"

——X”

The girl's fingers began to tremble.

If this notebook document were actually made of paper, it would definitely have been torn to shreds by now.

She was truly enraged!

With a slight flick of the finger, a black window immediately appeared on the screen.

The girl's fingers danced across the keyboard, smoothly typing lines of commands. Soon, strings of commands filled the screen.

Soon, a dialog box popped up on a computer on the other side of Beijing, right in front of Chen Ya.

The dialog box is also very simple, with only three words on it:

"You're a pig."

Chen Ya smiled slightly.

Hooked.

But judging from this tone and personality... Chen Ya thought to himself, this Y is quite different from the image he had imagined.

Chapter 368 Why is he so cool?

"No, I really don't understand what you're worried about. So what if you get found out? At worst, you can resign and join our team. It's just a matter of me saying a few words."

The man looked at the message on his phone, then glanced furtively around.

He was in a crucial stage of game development, and everyone was very busy. He breathed a slight sigh of relief when he realized that no one was paying attention to him.

He was slightly agitated, so he switched hands to hold the phone and rubbed the other hand on his thigh, as if trying to calm himself down.

A moment later, another message came from the other end:

"What I can guarantee is that whatever salary you get over there, your salary here will only be higher, not lower. Besides, you're jumping from Beichen to Echang. Think about it, do you think you'd be at a disadvantage?"

Given the same salary, anyone with a sound mind would know which option to choose if they switched from a small startup to a large factory in Hubei.

He typed on his phone:

"Brother Qiang, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I signed a confidentiality agreement when I joined the company, and I'm really a little scared."

After finishing typing, he put down his phone and waited for "Brother Qiang's" reply.

Looking up, the sunlight streamed in through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office building, making the entire office area bright and cheerful.

This is the office area of ​​the technical team at Beichen Company, and he is a newly recruited graduate from an ordinary non-elite university.

No one knew that this seemingly ordinary man was chatting with the famous Zhang Weiqiang on WeChat at that moment.

Last time Zhang Weiqiang came to the company, many people came to chat with him. He even took the opportunity to get Zhang Weiqiang's WeChat.

Anyone who works in the tech field and has put in some effort, and has a basic understanding of self-study, should have heard of Zhang Weiqiang.

Being able to converse with such a legendary figure was something he, an ordinary person, had never dared to dream of before.

But what's even more unbelievable is that he's now making a "deal" with Zhang Weiqiang.

After Zhang Weiqiang left last time, news soon came that he had joined the Hubei factory, so he sent his greetings via WeChat.

Unexpectedly, two days later, Zhang Weiqiang replied to his message and asked him to tell him some "internal information" about the Beichen project.

At first, under the guise of learning, he excitedly collected project information everywhere. But after collecting some, he suddenly discovered:

Isn't my behavior exactly that of a corporate spy?

Thus, this matter turned into a transaction.

He and Zhang Weiqiang agreed on a price, and the other party generously promised him a figure, but he wanted to add a little more.

He didn't really care about the so-called "confidentiality agreement." As Zhang Weiqiang said, he could just resign if necessary.

At his current level, he's far from needing to sign a non-compete agreement.

Moreover, after he resigned, he was able to get a job at the E'chang factory on the same spot. If his classmates knew that he could get a job at the E'chang factory, they would be extremely envious.

So bringing this up at this point boils down to one core message—"We need to pay more."

But Zhang Weiqiang seemed to know what he was thinking, and after a while, he sent a message:

"A confidentiality agreement? Then maybe we shouldn't do it?"

The man was in a hurry. He wanted to do it, but he was also afraid that Zhang Weiqiang would back out. He was afraid that the cooked duck would fly away.

But soon, Zhang Weiqiang sent another message:

“Those are all irrelevant. I’ll help you apply for funding again. Once you’ve gathered all your initial project plans, character designs, maps, and storylines, just resign. We’ll process your onboarding right away.”

The man secretly breathed a sigh of relief as he turned off his phone.

He understood that this would be the only opportunity he had in his 20-plus years of life, apart from the college entrance examination.

He had to figure out what he should sell, to whom he should sell, and... how much he should sell.

……

The first thing Gu Yuqing did after returning to China was to take a long, hot shower.

It wasn't about finding Chen Ya. That guy wasn't as comfortable as lying in bed all fresh and clean after a bath.

Back in China, she still had to adjust to the time difference, and she felt completely drained. If she didn't miss him so much, she would have just collapsed into bed right now...

...instead of changing into comfortable pajamas and lying on the bed to send him messages like this:

Have you missed me?

After a long silence, Chen Ya finally replied with something infuriating:

"Well……"

Gu Yuqing has been in Saudi Arabia for the past few days.

A leading domestic agricultural technology company went abroad to seek in-depth cooperation in agricultural technology.

The Gu family has some connections in Saudi Arabia, and she used to act as a middleman.

But to be honest, Chen Ya has been so busy these past few days that he hasn't had a moment to spare and has no time to care about Miss Gu.

Although the two kept in touch online every day, and Gu Yuqing would send him pictures of food, drinks, cats, and dogs, they could only leave messages across time zones.

These past few days without Gu Yuqing, Chen Ya felt like one less troublesome thing had been dealt with, and he didn't really miss her.

Gu Yuqing was incredibly intelligent and naturally understood Chen Ya's psychological state. She knew it, but she still wanted to ask, so that she would have a reason to throw a tantrum.

"You don't want to, right? Fine."

Before Gu Yuqing could give him a verdict, Chen Ya immediately replied:

"Maybe it hasn't been long enough. Maybe I'll miss you if it's been any longer."

Gu Yuqing typed: "Sometimes I don't know if you're courting death or trying to coax me."

"No? I'm telling the truth. What's wrong?"

"nothing."

Gu Yuqing lay in bed, holding her phone, and turned over, suddenly not wanting to sleep anymore.

She dialed Chen Ya's number, and as soon as the call connected, she said, "Come shopping with me."

Before Chen Ya could speak, she immediately added:

“I just flew back from thousands of miles away, and you are not allowed to refuse me for any reason.”